Google Stadia has 180 games now in its cloud gaming service.
Google Stadia has lots of games now in its cloud gaming service.
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With 180 games, Stadia entices devs and influencers to join its cloud gaming service

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It’s fair to say Google hasn’t set the world on fire with its Stadia cloud gaming service. But the company is doing its best today to instill more confidence in the game platform with enticements that are pretty attractive.

The tech giant waded into the game business with a big presentation at the Game Developers Conference in March 2019, but it has pulled back on its investments during the pandemic and moved to a slower approach. With cloud gaming, Google hopes to use the processing power of its datacenters to stream outstanding graphics to any device, so players can play high-end games on any computer, smartphone, TV, or other devices they have with a screen.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.